Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] So yeah, when I have a thought I gotta let it out It's a bright spot that I can't even doubt my opinions, my point of view Even if things are a little tripped and sweet so, yeah even if you disagree so, yeah, even if I'm not in your pedagree so yeah especially if you agree I so, yeah so, so, so, so, yeah.
[00:00:38] Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever and whenever you're listening to it. Welcome to the so yeah Podcast with your girl Caroline M. Diamond in the club.
[00:00:56] Just kidding. I'm at home. Hey, come. Come on now. What up? All right, so I actually cannot believe that it's taking me 25 episodes to speak on this topic.
[00:01:08] And that topic is periods, the menstrual cycle.
[00:01:13] And I would suggest, I mean, I don't know how many men, straight men, are listening to this program, but I offer you men to listen to the struggles that women go through when they are bleeding out of their cuckoo. Anna. Okay, so I personally, I've always had, like a monthly period. It's been very, like, quote, regular in that way.
[00:01:37] So always got it. Five days, pretty, you know, standard textbook every 27 to 28 days, you know, But I used to be on birth control.
[00:01:50] Well, this is. This is so not good. This is definitely a Caroline college story.
[00:01:55] I was starting to take birth control in college because I thought that I was going to get laid there.
[00:02:00] I did not.
[00:02:01] And this was like, taking the pills, pill format. And I would, like, forget that I would take, like three pills at a time. Like, girl, not good. So I got off that pretty quick because I was not responsible enough to take a pill by mouth every day.
[00:02:16] So I was off birth control for a while. And then when I went on tour, I was like, oh, let me get an iud because again, I'm gonna have sex. And you know what? I actually did? Boom, Boom.
[00:02:31] But anyway, so I'm on my IUD and I had the Mirena. And the Mirena is the one where you do not get your periods. You know, leading into it, I was like, oh, my God, I'm 22 years old and, like, let me just not have periods. That sounds amazing. Not understanding the implications of what that means to be on birth control.
[00:02:50] And for me, the Mirena, it was so hormone driven that it made me an absolute cuckoo banana. Psycho. If you could imagine me even crazier than I am today.
[00:03:01] Think about it.
[00:03:04] Spooky. Okay, not good.
[00:03:07] So I. When I was on tour, I got injured. And as I was recovering from my injury and trying to get like, you know, body work done. I went to this like, very like, woo woo holistic chiropractor. And he like touched my back and he was like, oh my gosh, you are taking too many hormones. There's too much testosterone in your body. I was like, what? You got that just from touching my shoulder? And he was like, yes. Are you taking any hormones? And at the time I, I didn't think in my head that birth control was hormones. But again, dumbass.
[00:03:38] And I was like, well, no, I'm on birth control. He's like, well, that's hormones. And so apparently it was like rising my testosterone up so much that my body was like fighting itself. So he's like, you have to get this taken out. So like right now also, I don't know how I skipped over this, but getting an IUD inserted.
[00:03:54] Oh my God. Of course, I don't know what childbirth is like, but I would assume that is very similar to that experience.
[00:04:01] It was utterly painful. And again, going blindly and uninformed into this IUD insertion. I had this old Jewish man insert it and he was like, yeah. And I drove myself there.
[00:04:14] What?
[00:04:15] And what they do at first, they take this like long silver apparatus and they measure the depth of your cervix when I tell you.
[00:04:27] I felt like I was getting stabbed gutturally again from the inside out just to measure the cervix. And I, with this IUD is like, it's a teeny tiny little thing. Teeny tiny girl. And that getting inserted, that clamping to your cervix. Oh my forking gourd.
[00:04:51] The most painful thing ever. Like, honestly, that was so bad. And then for the rest of that day, I drove myself home. I went to go work a shift, lol.
[00:05:00] And I was healed over in pain. Like I couldn't even stand up. My stomach hurts so bad. I had so much stomach pain that day that I had to leave work. And then for the entire week after, I was in like excruciating pain, keeled over once again. And then for the rest of that month it would randomly hit me random out of nowhere, just be order my Sprite from McDonald's. And then oh my gosh, for a month.
[00:05:30] But it did stay in me for like two years. And I think it's normally like seven years or something like that. And here, here's my little two cents on birth control. Do I think that some people absolutely need it because they have diabolical periods and their health needs it for sure. But ladies, if you do not have anything that is wrecking havoc on your body and that you need birth control for, do not get birth control.
[00:05:57] I'm telling you right now. Do not get birth.
[00:06:00] If you ever open up that piece of flimsy paper and you see all in the tiniest print, tiny print of all the side effects that can happen to you when you take birth control, you shouldn't do it, girl. Just be raw. Raw dog this world. If you're like, oh my God, Carolina, I want to get pregnant, I'm not having sex. So I don't really know what that's like unless I'm the second coming of Mary. You know what I mean? Like Mary Magdalene up in this biatch, you know, immaculate conception. I'm not worried about getting getting pregnant right now, but I understand that some people are, and I. I really do get it. But I mean, I don't know, like, we got abortions, babe. Maybe that. That's an option. Plan B is an option. I don't know. It's just the daily birth control intake. And then also, like, it really. If you do want kids, if you do want kids, it can you up later.
[00:06:56] So if you have a hard time having children in general, you definitely should not be on birth control.
[00:07:03] Your fallopes need to really shed. Okay. Anyway, actually it's the uterine wall that sheds, but I digress. I digress. So going back to period. So after I got off my iud, I was in a hormonal fiasco, okay? My skin was a mess. Because if you look at my skin, she's pretty flawless. She's porcelain. You. You know, I do get my little pimpy pampy sometimes throughout the month, but nothing that's like cystic, right? And I.
[00:07:35] Around my goatee, I used to call my goatee of pimples. I would have so many pimples and they were just like continuing to refill. But oh my God, that would just piss me off so much. But anyway, so I was going through all this, like, hormonal shit. Like I was cuckoo bananas. Like, I was losing my shit. I was crying at everything.
[00:07:56] Which I am kind of crying at everything now too. But anyway, maybe that's just who I am. So I've got my periods regulated. They said it takes about two years to regulate your period, which. That's insane. And then since then, every like, fourth month. Yeah, something around there. Three or four months. I am in excruciating pain on my first day of my period. Like, so much so that I am barfing, which anybody that Knows me, knows I'm a puke diva, okay?
[00:08:25] I am barfing. I am laying on the bathroom floor because it's cold and it's cooling me down.
[00:08:31] One thing that I love to do when I am sick and I am unwell is take baths. I don't know why I need to be submerged in water to, like, it pulls out the despair I feel when I'm in liquid, okay? So I take, like, probably three minimum baths when I'm on my first day of my period, when I'm having this catastrophic episode. But it's not consistent, so it's not every month. But I used to be a very, like, puritan. Like, I'm not gonna take any medication, which. Because, you know, sometimes some medications have more side effects than they have, you know, treating the actual problem. And I really do believe in, like, attacking the root problem of it all. But according to my gyn, I don't have endometriosis. I don't have pcos. So you just got to deal with it. But back in the day, I would just suffer. Just suffer day and night on this first two, maybe first day of period, day and a half of period. But now. Now I. I feel like it's like a placebo effect.
[00:09:32] That's not the right thing. The Mandela effect. One of those effects when I. I'm, like, going about my day and I'm like, hm, feels like a period's happening. And then I swipe. And then immediately. I am immediately cramping. It's like my brain is like, oh, yes, period. Let's start wrecking havoc. But once I see that first swipe, I need to take ibuprofen, extra strength prescription, 800 milligrams. Thank you. And then that, like, really just numbs me out. And, like, it really just helps me get through my day. But if I do not take it, then I am screaming, crying, throwing up. Oh, should I get my. My period story? I think that's actually cute, so. Because, you know, every woman has one. I was in eighth grade. I was in Spanish class. It was 1:10pm and I was sitting there, and I was like, why do I feel like I peed my pants? Like, there's like, definitely some splooge.
[00:10:28] Okay? I go to the bathroom and I see it, and then I'm like, what the is happening? And like every other woman ever who gets their period, what do you do? You roll up that toilet paper, you stick it on your underwear, hope it doesn't shift around, because then you have, oh, my God, it's all up in the lips. It's all crazy. So I, like, rolled it up. And then I told my mom. She's like, oh, my God. We'll start you off on pads.
[00:10:54] Then the next day, I go have my solo rehearsal with Miss Monica. Love her. She's still amazing person, human being.
[00:11:00] And I tell her that I got my period. She was like, oh, my God. She's like, are you wearing tampons? And I was like, no, I'm wearing pads. Like, I just got my period two days ago. My mom said that I can, like, wait a couple rounds having a period before I start to do tampons. She's like, nope. To the bathroom. Oh, what? And also, this is, you know, early 2000s. I don't have any problem with it because I love this woman. But, you know, in today's climate, you could never teach. Some teacher, could never teach somebody how to put in a tampon. So she was outside the stall and she was like, do your butthole. Do your butthole. And I was like, I knew, you know, leg up. I don't know what's happening right now. She's like, let me in. And I was like, no, I'm so embarrassed. Let me in. I let her into the little stall. She's like, do your butthole. And I was like, oh. And then slid in.
[00:11:54] So that's my period story. Still love Ms. Monica to this day. She also pulled out a couple of my teeth growing up. She was. She was just like, the nurse dance teacher. I digress. That's my period story. But I swear to God, every month it comes around, and I am surprised. Every goddamn month. Oh, my God, my period again. Oh, I. Leading up to it. Why am I such a bitch? Why am I so hungry? I'm hungry. Leading up to it. The first day, I'm not eating jack shit, my stomach hurts, the kitchen is closed, and I am just. Personally, I'm bleeding out. Okay? The first two days, it is tsunami, Tsunami, literally.
[00:12:37] Okay? And then start to teeter off. And then, you know, by the.
[00:12:41] The fourth, fifth day, it starts to look like A one sauce. And you're like, oh, I'm kind of out of the woods yet. And then that's the day that you forget to put a tampon in. And you're like, jesus Christ.
[00:12:49] Not me having steak sauce in my underwear now. Like, that is just gross.
[00:12:58] That is so nasty. So anyway, periods. Drop your period story in the comments if you feel comfortable to share, because we're all women here and we all get periods. If you're regular. If you're not, that really sucks. And then it really sucks if you're one of those girls that has periods for days and days on end and maybe even weeks.
[00:13:21] I feel really sorry for you.
[00:13:23] And now I'm like, I pity you. But, like, I really feel bad. Like, I'm so sorry, girl.
[00:13:36] This section of the podcast is called Currently, and it's everything that I am currently reading, watching, and listening to. So in last week's episode, I said that I was starting to read Mastery of Self by don Miguel Ruiz Jr. And actually, I said in the podcast that he was the man that wrot the four agreements. I was wrong. It was his dad. So he's like, a little, like, nepotism, baby. A little toltec. Nepotism, baby. Okay. We love literature. All right. I finished the book, and it was really good.
[00:14:10] I don't think that he. I don't think he's as good as his father. Oh, did I say that? Maybe a little bit. But it was really good. It was something that, like, I needed to really just sink my teeth in, really read and flip through and get it out of my system. And so I did that. And Mastery of Self by the Junior, not the daddy. Okay, what I'm currently listening to, and I know people have been in my DMs. Caroline, I need you to talk about this album. I need to know what your. Your opinion is, which. That is my favorite thing to hear. Okay? So if you ever have things that I want to talk about on the podcast, please message me. I would love to talk about it. I also might take it and might not. Might not. You know, that's what recommendations are. You know what I mean? My discretion. So, anyway, I finally. It took me like, a week and a half after it was released to listen to it, and was Rosalia's album, and. Oh, my God.
[00:15:03] Wow. It feels like an album that was made in a museum. It is layered, it is deep. It is spoken in 13 different languages. Like, she is. She's going above so many people's heads, babe.
[00:15:17] So many people's heads that they're like, oh, she's not all singing in Spanish. I'm like, well, babe, did you even know the translation in the beginning? Like, because I didn't. And I'm still enjoying the music. Y' all know I love my Spanish music. I love listening to Bad Bunny, baby. I'm gonna keep saying it until I manifest doing this goddamn Super Bowl. So anyway, but I listen to his music, and I just. I catch vibes it doesn't matter to me whether I can understand what the hell's happening or not, if I like it. And I feel the same with Rosalia's album. I find it. It was so good. It was textural, it was layered. It was. It made me cry. It made me shake my ass a little.
[00:15:57] There are no bangers from this album. I have to say.
[00:16:00] There's no I'm popping my ass in the club to this, like, Motomami. That was like, we are slapping cheeks. But this album is more of like, again, I'm on a lily pad. I'm in fabric. I am at the museum. I'm at the moma.
[00:16:16] And I love that. So I really enjoyed the album.
[00:16:22] This episode is going to be a little bit longer because I didn't realize I was talking about periods for so long. But I have more to say about what I'm watching.
[00:16:30] So just enjoy this longer episode today. Oopsie.
[00:16:34] I.
[00:16:35] Last night, I know again, I was a week late, but I saw Wicked Part 2 and then I. We re. Watch as a house Wicked Part 1 on Wednesday and then we saw it on Friday and Wicked Part one.
[00:16:53] Some people might not agree with this, and that's okay. I still think that the part one is underrated.
[00:17:02] People are like, what do you mean? Like, it was everywhere. Everybody was hyping it. Yeah. And still I think it should have been hyped more. Like, I'm being absolutely deadass with you because. Because this is Cinephile this year. I've been watching so many things and.
[00:17:15] And you know, I love musicals and that sets, like, the set is mostly real and I just need that. I need the sensation. I need set design to be working. I don't need the CGI to be working. Okay, you could save that for the flying monkeys then. Sure. Yes, of course. That is goddamn cgi. That's scary. Spooky looking.
[00:17:36] But anyway, the. For part one. Wow. Bangers. Bangers. Beautiful. Gorgeous. Love Part two.
[00:17:43] I enjoyed it.
[00:17:45] I think I'm gonna give it a four on letterboxd because let's. Let's be real. I have seen Wicked the musical on a touring company, but I don't really remember the plot. Like, that was 10 plus years ago and I've obviously listened to the song since then. And the meteor songs are definitely in part one and part two, or act two, rather, is definitely like slower. It's slower in the musical. People have said this all the time. Time. I mean, the banger, the. The peak of the mountain for me in part two.
[00:18:19] For Good, babe. Oh, my God.
[00:18:22] The minute. The minute Cynthia said I was, I was crying, tears stream down my face. Okay? And I was weeping at that point, but I didn't really cry during the movie, which is crazy because in the first one, I was absolutely like, snot rocketing to the stars. Okay? I was shaking. I was crying so much. But this one, like, I was definitely. There obviously were tears and I was feeling it, but I wasn't unwell.
[00:18:55] And God damn Jonathan Bailey, man, that man is so sexy.
[00:19:01] And it's crazy how different that man looks with colored contacts because, yes, he's sexy with brown eyes, but those blue eyes, they just make him look like, I don't know, straight. I don't get it, but I'm into it. And then my last thing I will say on the Wicked series, I am so glad it's over. Only because I am tired of seeing Ariana Grande's shitty half lash on the big screen. Oh, my God, it was distracting in part one. It was distracting in part two. It was the ugliest lash I've ever seen. And no blush.
[00:19:46] It's disheartening, actually. It really is. But anyway, again, I digress. And that was Wicked part one and two.
[00:19:55] Thank you so much for listening, watching wherever you're consuming this content. Thank you for sticking around for five extra more minutes because it was a little bit longer. Oops. Had a lot to to say on some periods today and if you would like to sponsor this program, I would love it. We love to make money up in here and then otherwise, so, yeah.
